FORCING PACE

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 11

FORCING PACE

Coin On Pompeius % Comes Crash (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) Had Pompeius been included m the entries for the Hunters'. Flat at the Taranaki Hunt meeting, it is more than probable that he would have returned to Ellerslie a winner.

INSTEAD of this, he cost punters quite a good parcel of cash when he crashed to 'earth early m the Hunt Cup Steeplechase. At the time of his defection from the race m question he was forcing the pace out m .front with Liberal Lady. The forcing tactics were probably the cauße of his downfall. He looked the part all. right, but he has a lot to learn yet before, he can be accepted as a reliable fencer. Little was gained, so far as experience was concerned, to fit him for future hunters' events up north. He may make good later on, but has been a long time doing so, for he figures as an aged gelding. Pompeius certainly displayed pace on the flat when he finished third to Beau Cavalier and Eager Rose at the Te Kuiti gathering. On that form there would seem more than a rough show of Williamson's charge cracking it for a win m some hunters' flat event. RIGHT SORT IT is not often that a trainer can be found over enthusiastic about a boy m his employ. Last week at Dannevirke, "N.Z. Truth" met a mentor who reckoned he had a boy m a million. And if the picture the trainer painted is right, the boy deserves to have all the luck going. fTHH Hunt meeting at Dannevirke found a lot of enthusiasm and only for three outsiders rolling home the tote would have, been up ft deaj swre* g - r* .. ._ -ix